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Chapter 244
Sonya crossed her legs and watched as Liberty’s shoulders sagged beneath the gaze of so many. The satisfaction was tantalizing, but she had to control herself. She took a deep breath and checked on Cass. The girls fists were clenched, her eyes fixed on the figure standing at the center of the room below. Sonya put a hand on hers and gave it a reassuring squeeze before looking back towards the judge.
“In this Confirmation Hearing, the criminal charges have been announced to the defen...
2025-02-10 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 243
Sonya smirked at the ceiling as Marta fussed over her tie. Humming a little to herself while going over the day's schedule. She had a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in. That wasn’t so much of a big deal as it was a return to normalcy. She glanced down and met Marta’s eyes as she pulled back and pat the knot on the tie once, “All good?”
“You’re never going to learn to do that yourself, are you?” Marta asked with roll of her eyes.
“Nope!” Sonya laughed an...
2025-02-07 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 242
Sonya’s eyes fluttered open within the vast green expanse of that place within her mind. She looked up at the blue sky and smiled at the clouds swirling about overhead, a pleasant breeze fluttering past her face and throwing her hair about. She reached up and pulled it back, getting idly to her feet as a presence rose up from within her instincts before projecting itself out into the space around her. It collected itself for a moment before taking on the rugged form of Ishtar, her hand on h...
2025-02-06 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 241
A modern shower was a glorious thing. Warm water on her back, running through her hair, a cleansing after all of her experiences. The realm within Titania’s ability hadn’t been truly real, but it had felt that way. The dirt, blood, tears, pain, and shame that the old goddess had inflicted upon her. After everything she’d been through, everything she’d seen, everything that she’d done, she finally felt truly whole. A light heart beat in her chest that wouldn’t be extinguished by a ...
2025-02-05 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostSide Story: Heralds 1
With yet another crash and thunderous rumble, a tree fell over in the blasted hellscape that was the remains of the heart of Liberty’s power. Ash and dust kicked into the air, adding to the thickening fog that pervaded the space. Otis huffed, panting out a breath and pulled his fist back from where the tree had been. He snarled and ran his fingers through his hair, pacing back and forth as he tried to wrap his head around everything that had happened during the battle.
“It was suppo...
2025-02-04 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 240
I really can’t believe you just said that, Ishtar sighed.
Far above everyone, looking down from atop that winding staircase made of hardened light, with the wind flowing around her, Sonya swayed her head left and right as the little tune started up across the battlefield. The mass of heroes and soldiers looking up at her, stunned by her arrival. She could even see the heroes gathered at the heart of the compound turning to face the strange new sight.
She savored t...
2025-02-04 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 239
As the wind whipped past her, the booms of their acceleration washing past her glowing white armor. A pair of illusory white dragon wings flapping at her sides. Fancy. Sonya took a moment to re-familiarize herself with her body and her refined abilities. All of them had been condensed into new powers that made up a greater whole than the sum of their parts. First, of course, was Broker. It hadn’t changed much but she knew what it was now. It was the power that all Arbiter’s ...
2025-02-03 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 238
Ishtar lost.
The wind roaring past her helmet woke her from her stupor. Every cell in her body hurt, her bones ached, her mind spun, her muscles screamed, and the cybernetics grated against her insides. She flipped end over end as she hurtled into the sky, through clouds and rain and snow as she ascended further. Ishtar’s vision swam and she tried to create a berry in her mouth. Instead, all she could taste was a sickly battery-like flavor lingering on her tongue. She swore, lights fl...
2025-01-31 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 237
Liberty moved like a beast possessed. Crossing the distance between them like shot fired from a cannon. Crusader’s sword in her hands, she brought it down in a terrible overhand arc. Harbinger brought the handle of her hammer up to resist, metal shrieking against metal for a moment as her muscles strained to resist Liberty’s strength. Even with what appeared to be only two of her compounds of cultists remaining, her strength was unreal.
The mythic cultist sneered and adjusted ...
2025-01-30 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 236
The smoke of a burning forest provided a dark backdrop against the pale tone of the stone disk created by Liberty’s Standard of Glory. Around it, the heroes who had pushed their way to the center of the battlefield stood, accompanied by Pandora Committee troops. The low thrum of helicopter blades heralded the arrival of the eyes of the world. With not only live witnesses but the gaze of more and more people across the world as they tuned in, Liberty stood alone.
Harbinger stood ...
2025-01-29 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 235
<”Technocrat…”>
<”I’m here, boss.”>
<”What’s Kingshark’s status?”>
In another place, a building fell, the shadow of a humanoid stood above it. Two red eyes burning with eldritch fury. Along the coast, ships cracked in half as they succumbed to the tentacles of a sea monster. Men fled for their lives as sharks of maddening size pursued them. That man-shadow raised its head up to the sky and let out a roar that shook the the earth. Heroes ...
2025-01-28 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 234
Otis turned away as the helicopter began to take off, his hair fluttering about. The golden-boy charm glowing on his face fading to something a bit more comfortable. His skin crawled after having been so close to mundanes. The civilians who cheered for him when he did his hero work in New York was one thing, but nosy reporters were scum. That said, they do have their uses, he thought pleasantly as he took a relaxing walk from the site of his battle with the monsters. Ah, monsters...
2025-01-27 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 233
As Liberty pried herself angrily from another pile of rubble, Ishtar held her hand out over Sapporo’s corpse. The glowing Cult Leader tossed aside a piece of masonry and stormed down the remnants of her home like it was a staircase. Ishtar flicked her wrist and a portal appeared beneath the body and it fell inside. She heard a shriek behind her and resisted the urge to shake her head. Instead, she raised her voice to be heard across the main compound. “Little Heroes,” she called, “I s...
2025-01-24 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 232
Four sets of boots crunched along the apocalyptic mix of snow and scorched earth. Bodies left frozen as grizly statues or burned by the blaze that continued to rage amongst the remaining trees. The wind burned and bit, the humidity spiked, it was a sweltering hellscape made all the more nightmarish by the claps of thunder and booms of great powers exchanging blows. The ground shook. The air teemed with mana. Monsters formed only to die at the hands of the experienced warriors on the march. 2025-01-23 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 231
Ishtar raced back to the battlefield. It wasn’t hard to find. The entire forest was ablaze at this point, consuming itself in the inferno. Trees had fallen over and smoke was rising to the sky. She stopped a distance away, looking down at the mayhem and took one last moment to catch her breath. She was confident she’d bought herself a little time with Otis. The stories from Sonya’s memories, the flashes she could retain without her connection to Sonya, what little she’d seen at the ca...
2025-01-22 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Chapter 230
After your response I've taken a second look at chapter 230 and made some significant updates. I hope you enjoy the revised version <3
2025-01-21 21:10:56 +0000 UTC View Post